The pilot was extended on 19 September and was due to end last Friday. The results are not yet fully evaluated. But UKBA's statistics show that compared to the same period last year, the number of illegal immigrants detected increased by nearly ten per cent. ? She said she discovered last week that officials had gone further than authorised in relaxing checks.Last week, John Vine, the independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency, raised concerns with Rob Whiteman, the Chief Executive of UKBA, that security checks were not being implemented properly. On Wednesday, the Head of the UK Border Force, Brodie Clark, confirmed to Mr Whiteman that border controls had been relaxed without ministerial approval.
10am: Sir Harold Evans,
ytcgzx.net, the former Sunday Times editor, and Peter Oborne, the Daily Telegraph columnist, give evidence to the Leveson inquiry.10.15am: David Cameron will deliver his speech on the economy in Manchester. As usual, I'll be covering all the breaking political news, as well as looking at the papers and bringing you the best politics from the web. I'll post a lunchtime summary at around 1pm and another in the afternoon.If you want to follow me on Twitter, I'm on @AndrewSparrow.And if you're a hardcore fan, you can follow @gdnpoliticslive. It's an automated feed that tweets the start of every new post that I put on the blog. Vince Cable plans to hand investors more powers to clamp down on excessive bonuses.
Pausing the legislation was an unusual step. But this is a Government that does things differently. That listens to people. That won't take risks with something as important as our NHS.And it's a different kind of government too – a coalition. Where different voices are heard. Where we're not afraid to disagree, to have the debate, to bring together the best of our ideas. That's coalition; that's good government. It's how you take the right decisions. And it's how we're protecting our NHS.12.46pm: In his Q&A at Guy's hospital, David Cameron said the government's willingness to admit that it did not get the health bill right first time was "a sign of strength". Interestingly, YouGov have been polling on this.
They voted by 330 votes to 262 - a majority of 68 - against an amendment tabled by Lord Owen, the former SDP leader, that would have referred parts of the bill to a special committee for scrutiny. They also voted against an amendment from Labour's Lord Rea that would have killed the bill altogether by 354 votes to 220 - a majority of 134. There are more details on our health bill live blog.? Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader, has renewed her call for an investigation by Sir Philip Mawer,
marc by marc jacobs bag, the independent adviser on ministers' interests, into the Liam Fox affair. Speaking on the World at One, she said: "The ministerial code says the matter of enforcement of the ministerial code is not for the Cabinet Office or the cabinet secretary.
"It signals the end of Labour's attack on the working class moral economy that has always believed benefits should be largely based on contributions and not decided simply on terms of need," Field said. "It is difficult to overestimate how significant today's speech is." The speech is at 1.30pm, and I'll be covering it in detail live. (See 10.43am and 12.20pm.)? The Home Office has published figures showing that plans to cut the number of foreign students arriving in the UK could cost ￡2.4bn more than they save.? Kate McCann told MPs that families whose children go missing need more support. Speaking to a parliamentary committee investigating the issue,
www.cnnhkids.com, she called for a single point of contact between the families of missing people and the police.
3.10pm: Here's an afternoon reading list.? Mark Ferguson at LabourList assesses what the results of Labour's national executive committee elections mean.? Jon Lansman at Left Futures says candidates from the left receive most votes in Labour's national executive committee elections.? Kiran Stacey at the FT's Westminter's blog applauds William Hague's jokes at PMQs.? The Evening Standard says, according to Prospect magazine, Lord Oakeshott has been telling friends that he expects Vince Cable to become Lib Dem leader within a year.3.30pm: Here's an afternoon summary.? Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, has said that rationing treatments across the NHS is leaving patients with the "agonising" decision whether to pay for treatments which are available for free in other parts of the country.
And we will tackle the hard core of people who persistently reoffend and blight the lives of their communities. So no-one should doubt this government's determination to be tough on crime and to mount an effective security fight-back. 10.17am: Cameron is now talking about family breakdown. Many of those involved in the rioting had no father at home, he says.If we want to have any hope of mending our broken society, family and parenting is where we've got to start.I've been saying this for years, since before I was Prime Minister, since before I was leader of the Conservative Party.So: from here on I want a family test applied to all domestic policy.If it hurts families, if it undermines commitment, if it tramples over the values that keeps people together, or stops families from being together, then we shouldn't do it.
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